Sunday, August 23, 2009

I continue to work on my collaboration with Bridgette Guerzon Mills and Jen Worden. Each of us created a unique structure to pass back and forth. Bridgette's Trees is a handbound book of plaster pages. Jen's Shine is a series of metal sheets that will become flags. And my piece is a handmade book called Contexture. Think context, texture, and text.

Here is how my book is looking now...

And here are some photographs of the most recent pages I made in my own book...

Oh my gosh! I love this book with all the textures, subdued colors and text-- letters and numbers and so forth--- all up my alley. And it is so thick. I have been thinking about starting a book on my upcoming trip to Kyoto Japan and yours has given me some encouragement.

Magnificent! The enlarged view is a must to appreciate all of the layers of texture in your pages. I think that I could stare at them for hours and yet still find something that was hidden at first look.I'd love to see this in person, I bet it's even more fabulous!

my eyes can feel the roughness of these pages...i can feel the texture of each element...even the paint feels rough and good...of course i love the stitches you make to hold things on and together...i relate to the sewing of threads to boards and fibers, twigs, etc...the words shout out and off the page...making me wonder about the story...colors meld together so well...how do you find time to do this and respond to your many, many admirers? i love looking at all your work Seth.

You are so involved and I am so full of envy..Even tho I know should not be..It would be so nice to be in a location where so much is going on instead of being stuck in the country side of AL..I love the texture and I want to make hand made books..Yet to read and understand is not me..I have to see it being done and then I need that little bit of Help! LOl.thank you for always inspiring.Katelen